When there’s no money in the house, as happens often in the lives of a couple who are both what the Italian taxman calls liberi professionisti – people with no regular income, to you and me – I console myself and my family with the thought that however little we are paid for our labors, it’s all in gold.
he USA Today headline: “Abortions at the DNC? Planned Parenthood bus providing no-cost service and vasectomies: The organization posted on X that it will provide free medication abortion, emergency contraceptives and vasectomies through its mobile health bus Monday and Tuesday.”
Freedom of expression is being targeted by the bureaucratic cliques in Brussels, and most recently they are doing it without any pretenses.
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Doubtless the gentle reader has no illusions about my knowledge and understanding of sport, given that on more than one occasion I confessed to have but limited mastery in only two fields, chess and badminton.
When I ask people about candidates they support–and why–they usually respond by praising their position of abortion or taxes or foreign policy. When I probe further and ask what, for example, J.D. Vance has done to limit abortion, they cite some speech he has given or a position paper, To quote the godfather of Beat poets, “The thing is, they never learn.”
It is a truism of political analysts that while most Americans say they do not trust the members of Congress, they tend to trust their own representative. This is a bizarre dichotomy.
Two events. 1. Minneapolis burning in the summer of 2020 during the George Floyd riots under Gov. Tim Walz. 2. Kamala Harris’ Aug. 6 call, with Walz at her side, for banning “assault weapons.”
“Cloudily enwrapped in allegorical devices” was how Edmund Spenser described to his readers the plot of The Faerie Queene.
We are often reminded that “There is not only no such thing as a free lunch.” This is true in one sense, since, while I may get my lunch free by robbing the restaurant or blackmailing the proprietor or extorting money fraudulently that enables me to spend other people’s money on lunch, but then the restaurant or my victims are paying for the lunch.
